December 19, 2002 Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.-Fredric L. Cheyette, professor of history at Amherst College, has received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for the humanities and social sciences from the Phi Beta Kappa Society for his latest work, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours ($35, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2001).